Michael Finley Quotes
I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
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Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
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I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.
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It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.
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Literary scholars end up being some kind of storyteller, too.
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You can't create chemistry. In fact, the chemistry between two actors is for people to see, sense, and judge. The only thing we can do as actors is to come on board individually because we feel the same kind of passion for a script and for a director to cast us because he feels that, as actors, we'll do justice to that part.
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Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.
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Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
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In our world, as artists, the only time I'm allowed to express myself is through song.
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If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?
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As a party, we are better to risk losing without Donald Trump than trying to win with him. Enough already with Mister Trump.
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I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the time to dwell on whatever it is that you're writing about...you can be celebrating anger, you can be celebrating sorrow... you are spending the time to focus and observe and try to understand the various parts of being human.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.
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I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.
